Helena Malmström, Malmström Lab leader

Helena worked as a researcher in the lab but has established her own group in 2018. She still works hand in hand with Mattias’ group and more information about her research can be found here.

Torsten Günther, Günther Lab Leader

Torsten worked as a Post-doc in our lab and has now established his own group at Uppsala University but is still closely affiliated with us. Please check out his research here.

Tatiana Ruiz

Tatiana conducted her Master project in the lab working on ancient DNA analyses of human remains from the Scandinavian Funnel Beaker Culture. She is now conducting her PhD research at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Thijessen Naidoo, Ancient DNA Lab
bioinformatician

TJ did his PhD in our lab and is now working in the Ancient DNA National Facility.

Carina Schlebusch, Schlebusch Lab Leader

Carina recently established her own group but still works hand in hand with our team.

Susanne Bjornerfeldt

Susanne worked as research engineer in the lab and continues this job now at the SciLife lab.

Nina Hollfelder

Nina conducted her PhD studies (“Population genetic history and patterns of admixture [Examples from northeastern and southern Africa]) in the lab and is now working as a research engineer at SciLife.

Federico Sachez-Quinto

Post-doc in the Jakobsson Lab.

Ariel Munters

Ariel was working in the lab as a bioinformatician.

Emma Svensson

As a Post-doc, Emma was involved in many ancient projects and is now a study and career counselor at Uppsala University.

Olaf Thalmann

Olaf was in charge of the lab’s web presence and also developed Paleo-epigenomic ideas that he is now pursuing as an Assistant Professor at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences in Poland.

Mario Vicente

Mario was a PhD student in the Lab, and he is now affiliated with the Schlebusch Lab.

Lena Granehäll

Lena worked as a research assistant in the ancient DNA lab for 1,5 years, followed by a PhD in ancient pathogens at the Mummy Institute at Eurac Reasarch, Bolzano.

Berenice Villegaz-Ramirez

Berenice was assisting us in the ancient lab for over a year and is now exploring the world for interesting opportunities, which she found in the Immler lab at Uppsala University

Irene Ureña Herradón

Irene was a research assistant in the ancient DNA lab for 1,5 years, then she worked as a postdoc with Catarina Ginja at CIBIO in Porto, Portugal. She continues her ancient DNA work on cattle.

Anders Sjölander

Anders conducted his MSc work with us and became a bioinformatician at the SciLifeLab.

Jingzi Xu

Jingzi was a MSc student in our lab.

Khalis Afnan

Khalis was a MEME Master student in our lab.

Robin Olsson

Robin worked as a bioinformatician in our lab for 1,5 year and has now a position at the KTH in Stockholm.

Marta Burri

Marta joined the lab as a researcher, for 5 months in the beginning of 2016. She worked on ancient specimens and helped to process and prepare them for sequencing. She is now a Post-doc at the MPI in Jena.

Jose Manuel Monroy Kuhn

Jose conducted his MSc in our lab and is now pursuing a PhD.

Agnes Sjöstrand

Agnes was a Master student in the lab during the spring semester 2010. Agnes developed a new approach that uses private for searching for genes that have been under recent positive selection. Agnes continued as a PhD student and defended her thesis in November 2015 (“Origins and Adaptation in Humans [A Case study of Taste and Lifestyle”]). She is now a Post-doc at INSERM/French institute for medical research.

Lucie Gattepaille

Lucie conducted her Master’s project in the Lab during spring 2009. She continued as a PhD-student and defended her thesis in October 2015 (“Population genetic Methods and Applications to Human Genomes”) and did a short Post-doc in the lab. She now works as scientist at Uppsala Monitoring Centre.

Alexandra Coutinho

Alex was a research assistant in the lab and is now a PhD student.

Joachim Karlsson

Joachim was a student involved in a bioinformatics project where he developed a method to systematically predict phenotypes based on SNP information.

Pontus Skoglund

Pontus conducted his PhD research in the lab and defended his thesis in October 2013 (“Reconstructing the Human Past using Ancient and Modern Genomes”). Pontus did a short postdoc in the lab, and then moved to Boston to do another Postdoc at Harvard. He is now a PI at Francis Crick Institute, UK.

Gwenna Breton

Gwenna was a Master student from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon who completed her PhD with the Jakobsson Lab. During 2013 she spent 6 months in the lab working on lactase persistence polymorphisms among indigenous southern African groups addressing questions of migration and the introduction of pastoralism to southern Africa.

Ayca Omrak

Ayca was a research assistant and is now a co-supervised PhD student.

Sen Li

Sen completed his PhD in December 2012 (“Inferring evolutionary processes of humans”). He worked with evaluating the performance of the Approximate Bayesian Computation approach to infer demographic parameters from large amounts of population-genetic data and to investigate genomic parameters under various demographic and evolutionary scenarios. Sen moved Copenhagen University and continues to work on Bayesian inference.

Katie Owers

Katie investigated signs of selection and the potential impact of infectious diseases on indigenous African populations for her Master of Science degree.

Nicolas DuForet-Frebourg

Nicolas was a Master student in the lab during the spring 2011. He developed a metod for incorporating haploype information into population structure inference tools.

Hiba Babiker

Hiba conducted her Master project in the lab from July 2009 to June 2010. Her research focused on exploring patterns of variation in populations from East Africa, in particular from Sudan. Hiba is now a PhD-student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany.

Patrik Båtelsson

Patrik used simulations to study the colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans during his Master of Science project.